Thursday 22nd September - Friday 23rd September 2011
The IDA provided a programme of 6 seminars for 100% Design which proved to be very popular. Targetted at a wide audience to include, interior designers , manufacturers, product designers, specifiers. architects, students and educators the programme covered a range of topics pertinent to the contract/ commercial interiors industry.
|
The opening seminar was provided by Steve Baker (Right) who is the MP for Wycombe and a member of The All Party Parliamentary Furniture Industry Group. The seminar "Where do you think your next business will come from?" provided Steve with a platform to address how he sees companies in the design and furnishing sector building a successful business and what can the government do to support this?
|
 |
|
|
David Kierle and Zaniz Jakubowsku (Left) led a discussion "Interior Design Industry And Its Relationship With Architecture"
. Exploring the definition, value and status of the interior designer and the clients' perception and interpretation of the industry as a serious profession. David and Zaniz provided an amicable discussion where some sparks might have been expected. David commented that 'The Interior Designer provides the soul for the building'. They both agreed that it was important to bring all parties together very early in any new project and Zaniz commented further that the UK lagged behind the US where it was more usual to have this at the very first meeting with the client.
Zaniz Jakubowski is the Principle of Zaniz and a council member of the IDA, She was cited in the US press as 'the interior designer of the 90s' and David Kierle is Chairman of KSS Architects.
|
|
Barry Jenkins seminar was a discussion on "Future Architecture And Interior Trends In Commercial Areas". He explained how the commercial office continues to change and took a 5-10 year outlook of future trends and products. This session was extremely useful for manufacturers and designers to determine what the products of the future may be like.
Barry Jenkins (Right) is a product designer and the owner of BroomeJenkins.
|
|
 |
In Jamie Wilson's seminar "Architecture and Interior Design in Practice" he discussed how a multi-disciplinary practice combine to produce interiors with function, style and purpose?
Jamie Wilson (Left) is the Interior Director at IDA member HLM Architects.
|
|
Colin Watson led a lively discussion for the seminar
"The Reality of Design Education" (pictured right). This seminar led on from discussions around education that resulted from the IDA and BCFA led seminar at New Designers earlier this year. Centred around the idea that great interior design needs great products and they both need highly skilled professionals to deliver. The seminar raised the issue; do the views of Manufacturers, Interior Designers, Product Designers and Educators coincide or are they poles apart?On the podium for this seminar were:
-
Colin Watson, the Managing Director of The IDA
-
Zaniz Jakubowski, the Principle of Zaniz Design
-
Lynn Jones, Course Leader at The National School of Furniture
-
Kaye Newman, Course Leader at London Metropolitan University
|
|
|
Charles Leon (Left) provided the final seminar in the IDA's two day programme. His seminar entitled "Theatre of Imagination" explored the creative process and investigated the nature of creative thinking. He asked If design is not merely to copy existing work it requires a process that takes a series of stimuli and arranges them in a unique way.
Charles Leon is the managing director of interior design practice Charles Leon Associates and a council member of both the IDA and BCFA.
|